OANA LUNGESCU

NATO SPOKESPERSON

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Lungescu is the principal spokesperson for NATO and the alliance’s most senior female civilian officer. After two decades as a reporter for the BBC World Service, Lungescu is no stranger to increasingly intense news cycles, or threats such as Russian aggression. Among her most famous work is a documentary series about Romania’s secret police, which included the files they kept on her during the communist era after she refused to collaborate with them against her fellow citizens.

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